Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Certification

Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant Study Guide Spring 14

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Certified Sales Cloud Consultant Study Guide

Contents

ABOUT THE SALESFORCE.COM CERTIFIED SALES CLOUD CONSULTANT PROGRAM 2

SECTION 1. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY GUIDE 2

SECTION 2. AUDIENCE DESCRIPTION: SALESFORCE.COM CERTIFIED SALES CLOUD CONSULTANT 2

SECTION 3. ABOUT THE EXAM 3

SECTION 4. RECOMMENDED TRAINING AND REFERENCES 3

SECTION 5. EXAM OUTLINE 4

SECTION 6. SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS 5

SECTION 7. ANSWERS TO SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS 6

SECTION 8. MAINTAINING A CERTIFICATION 7

TRAINING & CERTIFICATION 1


About the Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant Program The Salesforce.com Certified Consultant program is designed for consultants who have experience implementing Salesforce Sales Cloud solutions in a customer-facing role. The audience has proven experience with the administration and configuration of a Salesforce application, as demonstrated through successful completion of the Salesforce.com Certified Administrator exam. The Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant is able to successfully design and implement Sales Cloud solutions that meet customer business requirements, are maintainable and scalable, and contribute to long-term customer success.

Section 1. Purpose of this Study Guide This study guide is designed to help you evaluate if you are ready to successfully complete the Certified Sales Cloud Consultant exam. This guide provides information about the target audience for the certification program, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectivesall with the intent of helping you achieve a passing score. Salesforce.com highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

Section 2. Audience Description: Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant A Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant designs and deploys solutions that support customer business processes and requirements using Salesforce applications. The consultant has experience designing solutions that optimize the Sales Cloud functionality and can lead the implementation of these solutions within a customer organization. The consultant has both experience working with sales and marketing organizations and expertise in Salesforce applications, including the knowledge needed to implement multiple applications in common customer scenarios.

The Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant is interested in demonstrating his/her expertise as a cloud computing implementation consultant with a specialty in Salesforce automation. The Salesforce.com Certified Consultant has 25 years of experience as a senior business analyst and has developed the skills outlined below:

Structured skill set for the consulting practice Experience with the full project lifecycle of Sales Cloud implementations Strong analytical and problem solving skills Deep knowledge of the Salesforce product lines Solid understanding of Internet technologies and cloud computing Solid understanding of data management and database concepts Familiarity with software development life cycle Ability to:

Design and implement successful solutions

Anticipate and mitigate risk

Meet and manage customer expectations

Increase customer confidence

Consistently deliver effective business solutions

Manage solution delivery and any issues that arise

Build solutions that are scalable and maintainable



Set up change management practices to ensure long-term solution success

Troubleshoot and resolve issues

Prioritize and escalate customer issues

Section 3. About the Exam The Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant exam has the following characteristics:

Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions Time allotted to complete the exam: 1 hour and 45 minutes Passing score: 68 percent Registration fee: USD 200; Retake fee: USD 100 References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Salesforce.com Certified Administrator exam

Section 4. Recommended Training and References As preparation for this exam, Salesforce.com Training and Certification recommends a combination of hands-on experience implementing Sales Cloud solutions for sales and marketing organizations, training course completion, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this study guide.

Salesforce.com Training and Certification recommends the following online courses and implementation guides to guide your study:

Online course: Implementing Sales and Marketing Online course: Preparing for the Certified Sales Cloud Consultant Exam Other helpful resources:

Online course: Setting Up and Building Communities Online course: Configuring Campaigns to Maximize Your ROI Online course: Customizable Forecasting for Administrators Online course: Customizable Forecasting for Sales Reps and Managers Online course: Introduction to Quotes for Sales Reps Online course: Configuring Salesforce for Outlook Online course: Getting a Head Start with Chatter Online course: Getting Started with Data.com Online course: Using Salesforce1 Online course: Administering Salesforce1 Online course: Release Training: Sales Cloud Implementation Guide: A Guide to Sharing Architecture Implementation Guide: Campaign Management Implementation Guide: Deploying Territory Management Implementation Guide: Implementing Person Accounts



Implementation Guide: International Organizations: Using Multiple Currencies Launch online training from your Salesforce application by clicking the Help & Training link in the upper right corner of the screen (requires login). Click Take Training and search for the desired courses, listed above.

In addition, Salesforce.com Training and Certification recommends reviewing online Documentation, Tip Sheets and User Guides by searching for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of the study guide and studying the information related to those topics. Documentation, Tip Sheets and User Guides can also be accessed through Help & Training. Documentation is also available in PDF format here: https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/sf.pdf.

Section 5. Exam Outline The Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant exam measures a candidates knowledge and skills related to the objectives listed below. A candidate should have hands-on experience implementing Sales Cloud solutions and have demonstrated the application of each of the features/functions below.

Objective Weighting

Industry Knowledge 5% Explain the factors that influence sales metrics, KPIs and business challenges. Explain common sales methodologies and key considerations. Implementation Strategies 7% Given a scenario, determine how to facilitate a successful consulting engagement (plan, gather requirements, design, build, test, and document).

Given a scenario, determine appropriate sales deployment considerations. Given a scenario, measure the success of an implementation project. Sales Cloud Solution Design 23% Given a set of requirements, design a sales process from lead generation to deal closure. Given a scenario, analyze customer requirements to determine an appropriate solution design considering capabilities, limitations, and design trade-offs.

Given a scenario, identify the appropriate approach when designing the lead conversion process. Describe the design considerations when implementing a sales process. Given a scenario, determine when it is appropriate to include custom application development. Describe the appropriate uses cases for Account and -Opportunity Teams and the effect on sales roles, visibility, access, and reporting.

Explain the capabilities and use cases for territory management. Explain how Salesforce to Salesforce facilitates the exchange of data between Salesforce organizations.

Marketing and Leads 7% Explain how marketing capabilities support the sales process. Given a scenario, recommend appropriate methods for lead scoring and criteria for lead qualification. Explain the best practices for managing lead data quality. Account and Contact Management 15% Identify use cases and design considerations for social contacts and accounts. Explain how the ownership of account and contact records drive visibility of related sales information such as opportunities, activities, etc.

Explain the various methods for establishing relationships between accounts and contacts. Explain the impact of having an account hierarchy. Explain the methods for populating and maintaining account and contact data using data enrichment tools.

Explain the use cases and implications for implementing person accounts. Opportunity Management 15% Given a set of requirements, determine how to support different sales process scenarios.



Objective Weighting

Given a scenario, determine the relationships between sales stages, forecast and pipeline. Describe the relationships between opportunities to assets, product line items and schedules, price books, quotes, contracts, campaigns, etc.

Given a set of requirements, determine the appropriate forecasting solution. Sales Productivity 12% Given a scenario, determine the key features that help to enable and measure sales productivity and adoption.

Identify use cases and considerations for using email and productivity tools. Given a scenario, identify the appropriate mobile solution to improve sales productivity. Describe how Chatter enables collaboration in the sales process. Explain the use cases and best practices for using Content vs. Chatter Files in the sales process. Communities and Site Management 5% Explain the use cases for portal and sites in the sales process. Identify the impact of enabling a partner portal. Sales Cloud Analytics 5% Given a set of desired metrics, determine the appropriate report or dashboard solution taking into account pipeline, forecasting, productivity, trending, stakeholders, and analytic snapshots.

Describe the impact of multi-currency on reports and dashboards. Integration and Data Management 6% Explain the use cases and considerations for integrations common to Sales Cloud implementations. Explain the use cases and considerations for data migration in Sales Cloud.

Section 6. Sample Exam Questions The following questions are representative of those on the Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant exam. These questions are not designed to test your readiness to successfully complete the certification exam, but should be used to become familiar with the types of questions on the exam. The actual exam questions may be more or less difficult than the questions below.

1. Universal Containers was bought by a larger company and needs to provide information on a monthly basis to the new parent company to help predict sales.

Which data should the new parent company review? A. Dashboard of user login history B. Count of new lead records created C. Number of activities tied to opportunities D. Opportunity pipeline report grouped by month

2. When the billing address on an account is changed, the mailing address of all related contact records

should be updated to reflect the new address.

How can this requirement be met? A. Create a workflow rule on accounts. B. Create a workflow rule on contacts. C. Create a Force.com trigger on accounts. D. Create a Force.com trigger on contacts.

3. Universal Containers is using Salesforce and has set up a private sharing model. Sam is a sales

executive who reports to John, a sales manager. Sam has ownership of the ABC Company account



record and has created an opportunity for ABC Company. There is a sharing rule that allows the finance team to see all accounts and opportunities. Which statement about data visibility is true? A. John and Sam can see all of the same data B. John can see all of Sams data but Sam CANNOT see all of Johns data. C. The finance team must be added to the sales team in order to see Sam's opportunity. D. John must be added to the sales team in order to see Sam's opportunity.

4. Universal Containers is expanding sales internationally and has created new price books to handle the

various currencies for the five new countries. When a sales representative selects one of the new price books to add a product to an opportunity, there are no products available.

What should be evaluated when troubleshooting this issue?

A. Confirm that product line items on opportunities are enabled. B. Confirm that the products are shared with the sales representatives role. C. Confirm that the old pricebook is disabled for the sales representative. D. Confirm that the products and currencies are associated with the pricebook.

5. Sales management at Universal Containers needs to provide channel partners with easy access to

approved product documentation. They also need to notify partners about the material revisions and updates.

How can they achieve these goals in Salesforce?

A. Enable Content in the Partner Community and enable Content email alerts for partner users. B. Enable the Document tab in the Partner Community and enable email alerts for partner users. C. Add the Content related list to the partner contact page layout and enable content delivery. D. Add the Content related list to the partner account page layout and enable content delivery.

Section 7. Answers to Sample Exam Questions 1. D

2. C

3. B

4. D

5. A



Section 8. Maintaining a Certification Successful completion of online, release-specific Salesforce.com Certified Administrator exams is required to maintain the pre-requisite to the Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant credential. Release exams are published three times a year for each of the Salesforce.com product releases throughout the year.

Successful maintenance of the pre-requisite credential, Salesforce.com Certified Administrator, is required to maintain this credential. An annual maintenance fee of $100 will be charged when registering for every third release exam, based on when the pre-requisite credential was earned. The maintenance fee includes the three release exams and access to the supporting training material. Salesforce.com Certified professionals will be notified automatically when new release training material and exams become available.

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About the Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant ProgramSection 1. Purpose of this Study GuideSection 2. Audience Description: Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud ConsultantSection 3. About the ExamSection 4. Recommended Training and ReferencesSection 5. Exam OutlineSection 6. Sample Exam QuestionsSection 7. Answers to Sample Exam QuestionsSection 8. Maintaining a Certification

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